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From: Dennis J. Bonsall, Jr.
Date: Thursday, November 4, 1999
Time: 11:40:00 pm

I have a quick question. I understand that this program "QuickDNS"
Provides load sharing and when a server is down, it will redirect all
traffic the the server that is still up. My question is how will it
perform with cached entries on other DNS servers. Example:

At 2:00 PM a user on AOL access www.mydomain.com and AOL's DNS caches
xxx.xxx.xxx.201.
At 4:00 PM the server on xxx.xxx.xxx.201 crahses thus causing the
routing to be directed to xxx.xxx.xxx.202.
At 4:30 PM another user on AOL requests www.mydomain.com and AOL's DNS
reports that xxx.xxx.xxx.201 is the IP.

How do you get the DNS server at AOL to remove the entry from their
cache to report xxx.xxx.xxx.202 as the server?
Are you stuck with all AOL users using AOL's DNS servers hitting the
dead IP until their DNS' cache gets flushed at midnight?

Thanks in advance,
Mike Kirkpatrick



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